Person:Thomas Rogers (122)

BIRTH: taken from tombstone and obituary

NAME: taken from obituary [see below] Also from mother's obituary.

MARR: taken from obituary, "In 1847 he married Miss Mary Alice King of Little Silver and the couple began housekeeping at that place."

CENSUS: http://content.ancestry.com/ 1850 New Jersey, Monmouth, Shrewsbury Thomas T. Rogers, 25, male, farmer, 3,500, b. New Jersey Mary A. Rogers, 23, female, b. New Jersey

CENSUS:http://content.ancestry.com/ 1860 New Jersey, Monmouth, Shrewsbury Thomas Rodgers, 33, male, farmer, 8,000, 500, b. New Jersey Mary H. Rodgers, 31, female, b. New Jersey Margaret H. Rodgers, 11, female, b. New Jersey Mary E. Rodgers, 3, female, b. New Jersey Elizabeth King, 66, female, widow, b. New Jersey

CENSUS:http://content.ancestry.com/ 1870 New Jersey, Monmouth, Shrewsbury Rodgers, Thomas L. 44, male, white, farmer, 4000, 4500, b. New Jersey Rodgers, Mary A., 42, female, white, keeping house, b. New Jersey Rodgers, Mary E., 13, female, white, goes to school, b. New Jersey King, Elizabeth, 75, female, white, pers. 5000, b. New Jersey Hill Lydia, 40 female, white, servant, b. New Jersey

CENSUS http://oprs.co.monmouth.nj.us/oprs/Archives/ASearchResults.aspx 1875 Shrewsbury Population, p. 188 Rogers, Thomas T., 49, male, gardener Rogers, Mary A., 48, female, White, Maggie A., 25, female, Rogers, Mary 3, 18, female White, Fred A., 2 male King, Elizabeth, 82, female Hill, Lydia, 45, female, servant

CENSUS: 1880 New Jersey, Monmouth, Shrewsbury Thomas T. Rogers, white, male, 53, marr., farmer, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Alice Rogers, white, female, 52, wife, marr., keeping house, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Maggie White, white, female, 31, daughter, wd., b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Mary E. Rogers, white, female, 23, daughter, single, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Fred A. White, white, male, 7, grandson, single, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Lydia Hill, white, female, 52, servant, single, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Esek Poland, white, male, 15, servant, single, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey

TRANSFER of LAND: www.genealogybank.com/ 1880-07-19; Trenton State Gazette

  Thomas T. Rogers and wife to Elizabeth Kelly, house and lot on the southwesterly side of Broad street, Trenton; consideration, $7,000.

NEWS:http://rbr.mtpl.org/data/rbr/1890-1899/1891/1891.02.04.pdf Red Bank Register, RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891

  Thomas T. Rogers will have a sale of his farming implements next Tuesday. The sale will come off at Mr. Roger's place at Atlantic Highlands. Eight horses are to be sold, together with single and double harness, wagons of various kinds, a bobsled and a sleigh, and a lot of plows, harrows and other farming implements.

NEWS:http://rbr.mtpl.org/data/rbr/1890-1899/1891/1891.02.18.pdf Red Bank Register, RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1891 Thomas T. Rogers of Atlantic Highlands was taken suddenly sick last Saturday while at the breakfast table, and has not yet wholly recovered.

MARR. [1st cousin, 1time removed] http://rbr.mtpl.org/data/rbr/1890-1899/1892/1892.02.10.pdf Red Bank Register, RED BANK, N. J., WEDNEBDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1892 WEDDING BELLS. Tunis-Wintersgill.

  Last Thursday night Miss Carrie M. Tunis, daughter of Charles S. Tunis, formerly of Englishtown, was married at her at her's present home at Trenton, to Ralph Wintersgill. Owing to recent bereavements and serious illnes in the family, including the bride herself, the wedding was very quietly conducted, but the gathering was in all respects pleasant, the congratulations generous and hearty, and the evening thoroughly enjoyable. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Rogers of Atlantic Highlands, who are relatives of the bride.
  

CENSUS: 1900 New Jersey, Monmouth, Middletown, Dist. 107, Atlantic Highlands Borough, 13 June 1900 Rogers, Thomas T., head, white, male, Aug 1825, 74, marr. 47 yrs., b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey, retired, owns mortgaged home Rogers, Alice M., wife, white, female, June 1827, 72, marr., 47 yrs., 2 children, 2 living, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey White, Maggie A., daughter, white, female, March 1848, 50, Wd., b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey

NEWS: http://mtpl.org/data/rbr/1900-1909/1900/1900.04.11.pdf RED BANK, N. J . , WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1900, A BABY'S PARTY A Little Girl with Four Great-GrandParents

   Alice White, aged between one and two years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. White of Atlantic Highlands, had a party on Monday afternoon. Four generations were represented at the gathering. The first generation was represented by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Rogers: the second generation by their daughter, Mrs. Maggie White; the third generation by Mrs. White's son, Fred A. White; and the fourth generation by Alice White, Fred White's daughter.
   Baby White has two great-grandmothers and two great-grandfathers. Fred White's grandparents on his father's side are Mr. and Mrs. Timothy White of Little Silver and his grandparents on his mother's side are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Rogers, consequently both couples are baby White's great-grandparents. 

OBIT: http://mtpl.org/data/rbr/1900-1909/1903/1903.11.18.pdf Red Bank Register RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1903. THOMAS ROGERS DEAD. HE WAS A PIONEER RESIDENT OF ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. Formerly Lived at Little Silver, But Moved to the Shore Town 21 Years Ago A Life-Long Worker in the Methodist Church.

   Thomas Taylor Rogers, one of the pioneers of Atlantic Highlands, died at that place last Sunday morning. He had been in failing health for five years and for two years or more he had not been out of the house except on one or two occasions, when he was taken for a short carriage ride. His sickness five years ago began with an attack of vertigo, which affected his speech. His power of speech gradually grew weaker and toward the close of his sickness he could scarcely make himself heard. Two weeks before his death he contracted bronchial pneumonia and this hastened the end. He was 78 years old last August.
   Mr. Rogers was born on a farm near Hamilton Square, in Mercer county. In 1847 he married Miss Mary Alice King of Little Silver and the couple began housekeeping at that place. They lived at Little Silver until the spring of 1881, when the natural beauty of Atlantic Highlands attracted the attention of Mr. Rogers and the family moved to that place. Atlantic Highlands was then in its infancy and the Rogers family was the first to move into the place. Thomas H. Leonard and John J. Leonard, natives of the place, had houses there, and the Martins, relatives of the Leonards, had built the Bay View house. Edward T. Burdge had built a house on one of the new streets just opened up and it was into this house that the Rogers family moved.
   Mr. Rogers-engaged in the real estate business and became interested in the development of the place. From a community of only a few scattered houses, Mr. Rogers had seen Atlantic Highlands grow to a town of nearly 2,000 permanent residents and a summer population running up as high as 5,000 in the height of the season. He was very much interested in the proposed trolley route to Atlantic Highlands and had expressed an earnest desire to live to see the completion of the enterprise. It is expected that the trolley will be in operation there by next spring and Mr. Rogers's family had promised him, that if he was at all able, to take him for a ride on the first car through the town, even if he was able to ride only a block,
   When sixteen years old Mr. Rogers was converted at Metbodist meetings held in a schoolhouse at Hamilton Square and be always lived a devout Christian life. For 25 consecutive years he was superintendent of the Sunday school at Little Silver and he was largely instrumental in the building of the present Methodist church at that place. When be moved to Atlantic Highlands there was no Methodist organization there. A few years later an organization was effected and a church was built, Mr. Rogers being one of the charter members. He had been a church official over half a century. His early conversion was of the old-time, positive sort. It was an experience tbat he always cherished and during the closing days of his sickness he tried to summon sufficient strength of speech to tell his callers of this early event in his life.
   Mr. Rogers was one of a family of seventeen children, but all of them are now dead. His mother died at Atlantic Highlands twelve years ago at the age of 104 years. Mr. Rogers's wife survives him and he leaves also two daughters, Mrs. Maggie A. White and Mrs. A. C. Oliver, both of Atlantic Highlands. He leaves also three grandchildren, Fred A. White and Alfred and Rogers Oliver, and one great-grandchild, the daughter of Mr. White.
   The funeral was held today at twelve o'clock at the house. Rev. Dewitt 0. Cobb conducted the service, assisted by Rev. O. A. Brown, Rev. Robert Emery and Rev. John Parmly. The body was buried at Little Silver. The bearers were S. T. Champion, S. T. White, Charles Morlatt, A. V. S. Crate, Edward P. Magee and H. B. Zebley, all official members of the Atlantic Highland Methodist church.

BURIAL:Evergreen Cemetery, Little Silver, Monmouth County, NJ Rogers, Thomas T. ~~ Aug 29, 1825 - Nov 15, 1903

WILL: FHL film 849574 Gen. Index to estates P-V 1903 Nov 30, Rogers, Thomas, pet for Ad Vol. 3 p. 549, Letters of Ad. Vol. D, p. 278 [not the right Thomas, this one born in England, died in Mercer County]

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1. ↑ Headstone (1).